Battle of Dry Tortuga

The Battle of Dry Tortuga (September 1719) occurred when the pirate crew of the ship Jackdaw, led by Captain Edward Kenway, assaulted the Spanish Navy fort of Dry Tortuga off the coast of Spanish Florida. The fort was weakly-defended, and the pirates had an easy time destroying the fort's outer defenses before storming the fort on land. Kenway led the assault on the Spanish defenders, and he killed the fort's commander, Fulgencio de Guadalupe, in the war room after slaying several of the fort's officers. Dry Tortuga became a pirate haven, and it was used for raids on small Spanish ships in the northern Caribbean.